The Nāṣirī Generations 248.4.7

248.4.7

Babar however, who preceded Mirza Muhammad Haidar, a few years, says that Almaligh, Almatu, and Utrar, lay north of Farghanah, but that they had been laid waste by the Uzbaks. Abu-l-Ghazi says the true Mughal country contains two ranges of very lofty mountains [which are plainly shown on the best maps of Central Asia] extending from east to west, and between these two ranges, nearest to the west, is the true country of the Mughals. Still more west lay the country of the I-ghurs. This description agrees with that given by other authors in the account of Kara Khan [page 875], and those two great ranges of mountains have been already named. To return to the descendants of Kaian and Naguz. They, having determined to issue from Irganah-Kun, thought of doing so by the same route or defile by which their ancestors had entered it, but they found it impossible. The pass had been destroyed by an earthquake, and no trace of it remained. They searched about in all directions, and at last they found one spot which seemed easier than any other, but it was impeded by a hill in which was a mine of iron [iron-stone rock possibly], and to enable them to get out they split the rocks by means of fire [Hannibal used vinegar in the Alps], and succeeded in making a practicable route. The tribe of Kungkurat or Kunghurat, as it is also written, led the way out, and were in such haste to do so that they are said, in the tradition, to have burnt their feet.